She was of those whom Fate must needs respect, so gracefully and sweetly do they accept happiness as their right.
Mr.Dalmaine joined these ladies with the manner of the sturdy Briton who would make himself agreeable yet dreads the _petit maitre_.

His voice would have been better if a little more subdued; he seated himself with perhaps rather more of ease than of grace; but on the whole Society would have let him pass muster as a well-bred man.
'You are interested in all that concerns your constituency, Mr.
Dalmaine,' said Mrs.Tyrrell; 'we were speaking of Mr.Egremont's plan of founding a library in Lambeth.

You have heard of it ?' 'Oh yes.' 'Do you think it will be a good thing ?' 'I am very doubtful.

One doesn't like to speak unkindly of such admirable intentions, but I really think that in this he is working on a wrong principle.

I so strongly object to _giving_ anything when it's in the power of people to win it for themselves with a little wholesome exertion.